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'Stuck in limbo': Over 90% of X's Community Notes unpublished, study says

ELKHART COUNTY, INDIANA, JUL 10 – The Digital Democracy Institute of the Americas found only 3.1% of submitted notes are published, with English note publication rates dropping to 4.9% in early 2025.

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More than 90 percent of X's Community Notes—a crowd-sourced verification system popularized by Elon Musk's platform—are never published, a study said Wednesday, highlighting major limits in its effectiveness as a debunking tool.

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More than 90 percent of user-suggested "community notes" on X are never published, according to a study by the NGO Digital Democracy Institute of the Americas (DDIA). The statistic casts doubt on the method's effectiveness in combating online disinformation.

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On X, users have for several years been able to propose, under a publication, a "community note" to add context or report a factual error.

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'Stuck in limbo': Over 90% of X's Community Notes unpublished, study says

More than 90 percent of X's Community Notes -- a crowd-sourced verification system popularized by Elon Musk's platform -- are never published, a study said Wednesday, highlighting major limits in its effectiveness as a debunking tool.

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KULR-TV broke the news in Billings, United States on Wednesday, July 9, 2025.
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